Congratulations to Cathy Glass and Casey Watson whose respective The Night The Angels Came and The Boy No One Loved, both published by Harper Collins, are no 2 and 10 in this week’s paperback non-fiction bestseller list. It is particularly impressive for The Boy Who No One Loved as it was only published on Thursday and sales are recorded from Saturday to Saturday. It cannot be often that the top ten has two books from the same agent and publisher.

The gripping memoirs of the award-winning founder of The Giggly Pig sausage company, Tracy Mackness, ghosted by Deborah Crewe, have been sold to Simon & Schuster for publication in spring 2013. Simon & Schuster are hoping to replicate the success of their Borstal Girl with Mackness’s acount of her own prison experiences .

Criminal London: A sightseer’s Guide to the Capital of Crime by Kris Hollington with pictures by NIna Hollington , five walks covering over a hundred locations with criminal associations, has been bought by Aurum who publish next July.

US rights in Sean McMeekin’s July 1914: Countdown to War, a day by day account of the crisis which led to the First World War based on fresh Russian, German and Turkish archives, have been sold to Basic for publication next year. UK rights are currently on offer.